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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 19, 20264 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2026, 10:50 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2026, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2026, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Austin County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 319 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -613 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 19, 7:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 7:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 6:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 7:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 8:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 9:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 10:17 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	44 min
May 19, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker	43 min
May 19, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller	26 min
May 19, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty, Montgomery	46 min
May 19, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		85 min
May 19, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston	73 min
May 19, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson	54 min
May 19, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 hr
May 19, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	57 min
May 19, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington, Wharton	48 min
May 19, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Washington	48 min
May 19, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton	64 min
May 20, 12:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos, Grimes	64 min
May 20, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Austin, Colorado	58 min
May 20, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller	65 min
May 20, 12:27 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		11 hr
May 20, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		118 min
May 20, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris	60 min
May 20, 1:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton	67 min
May 20, 1:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Austin, Washington	2 hr
May 20, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	28 min
May 20, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	32 min
May 20, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		43 min
May 20, 4:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria	5 hr
May 20, 6:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston	4 hr
May 20, 6:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		91 min
May 20, 7:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Harris	3 hr
May 20, 8:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Matagorda	2 hr
May 20, 8:28 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		62 min
May 20, 8:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda, Wharton	2 hr
May 20, 9:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Matagorda	109 min
May 20, 12:41 PM CDT	Flood Watch	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 13 more	4 days

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.